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Figurative Language
simile
Term
2. As a class, brainstorm ideas for the class-constructed poem, and create a list of possible subjects.
Definition
a comparison of two or more unlike things using the words like or as
giving human abilities and traits to something that is not human
Examples
personification
Sound Techniques
alliteration
the repetition of initial consonant sounds
onomatopoeia
words whose sound suggest their meaning
Poetic Elements
stanza
a group of lines in a poem
line breaks
a break at the end of a thought; after end punctuation; to indicate a shift in speaker, thought, or tone; for effect
Descriptive Language
sensory detail
details that appeal to or evoke one or more of the five senses
vivid verbs
strong action words
“Still white as milk or shirts”
“And laughs away from me”
“It laughs a lovely whiteness, / And whitely whirs away”
“It SHUSHES. / It hushes / The loudness in the road.”
The poem is one 11-line stanza
In line 8 (“To be”), there is a shift as the snow moves to “some otherwhere.” There is a very short line (two words) to help indicate this shift.
“It hushes / The loudness in the road.”
hushes, whirs, laughs
Writing Workshop 8 • Poetry 5
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